The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus: Health agencies worldwide prepare for the seemingly inevitability of the COVID-19 coronavirus becoming endemic

Affiliations

Philip Hunter. EMBO Rep. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 3;21(4):e50334.

doi: 10.15252/embr.202050334. Epub 2020 Mar 17.

Abstract

While it is too late to confine the COVID-19 coronovirus outbreak to China, a wealth of data spurs epidemiological and vaccine research.

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